For quite some time I’ve been following various freediving accounts on Instagram and Facebook. Elegant divers gliding silently with endless grace through the deepblue. The feeling of silence is
almost palpable in these images, and often they stay underwater for minutes with a single breath.

This idea to take up freediving myself came to me last November, when I snorkeled with wild dolphins for the first time. I stayed at the surface the entire time, too afraid to dive and watch them
from a different angle and maybe snap some shots.

With my mind made up to change this, I set off to the Boot Show in Düsseldorf to get some inspiration. And as luck would have it I happened to meet Sittika and Stefan from Manta Diving Madeira
while they were pitching their one-week course to a small group of prospective customers, accompanied by no other than book author and freediving world champion Nik Linder.